Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first actual shifting of assets took place a few hours later on Friday morning. Acting on a transfer contract signed by Treasury Secretary William Miller, officials placed a label on some 4,000 gold bricks stored in a federal building in Manhattan, denoting the Bank of England as the new owner. Simultaneously, other new labels in the Bank of England switched an identical amount of British gold into U.S. possession under instructions that it be ready to turn the gold over to Iran once the hostages were free...
...truth in packaging" law applied in the theater, Lewis Carroll's name would have to be removed from the label. A footnote in the program asserts that the show is based on Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. This is rather like claiming that a bag lady's remnants constitute haute couture...
Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who discovered to his astonishment that he had been speaking prose all his life, New Yorkers have learned that their ordinary tap water deserves an appellation controlee label...
...that gush through the city's faucets are fresher, clearer and "more stimulating" than all 37 varieties of commercial bottled water tested. For those who insist on decanting their liquids, Macy's is even selling the stuff with a spritz of carbonation under the gold label: CELEBRATED NEW YORK WATER -THE DRINK OF MILLIONS. The price...
...recent Cambodian history--especially regarding the brutality of Pol Pot--and prevented reasonable assessment. Most efforts to discuss the issues generally reduce to a guilty hysteria which places the blame for all atrocities upon the United States. Guilt may be a justifiable response to the Cambodian invasion but to label it a definitive history is a sham...